How to say “angel” in 41 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- ángeles/ˈanxeles/ Spanish
- ангел[ˈanɡʲɪɫ] Russian
- ملك/ma.lak/ Arabic
- 天使/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʂɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- 천사[t͡ɕʰʌ̹nsʰa̠] Korean
- מלאך/malˈ(ʔ)aχ/ Hebrew
“angel” in Spanish: ángeles · French: ange · German: engel · Italian: angelo · Portuguese: anjo · Chinese: 天使 · Korean: 천사 · Russian: ангел
It is commonest in Chinese, where 天使 is the 489th most used word.
Angel in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans engel/ˈɛŋəl/ #864
- Arabic ملك/ma.lak/ #647
- Armenian հրեշտակ/həɾeʃˈtɑk/ #942
- Basque aingeru/ai̯nɡeɾu/ #958
- Bengali দেবদূত/d̪ebd̪ut̪/ angel, divine messenger #1,856
- Bosnian anđeo/âːnd͡ʑeo/ #2,192
- Bulgarian ангел[ˈaŋɡɛɫ] #1,813
- Catalan àngel[ˈaɲ.ʒəl] #2,013
- Chinese 天使/tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʂɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ #489
- Croatian anđeo/âːnd͡ʑeo/ #2,110
- Czech anděl[ˈanɟɛl] #2,469
- Danish engel[ˈɛŋəl] #1,828
- Dutch engel/ˈɛŋəl/ #2,221
- Esperanto anĝelo/anˈd͡ʒelo/ #1,702
- Estonian ingel/ˈinɡ̊el/ #1,454
- French ange/ɑ̃ʒ/ #1,608
- Galician anxo/ˈanʃo/ #1,892
- German engel/ˈɛŋl̩/ #1,568
- Hebrew מלאך/malˈ(ʔ)aχ/ #1,570
- Icelandic engill[ˈeiɲcɪtl̥] #1,349
- Indonesian malaikat/maˈlai̯kat/ #1,099
- Italian angelo/ˈan.d͡ʒe.lo/ #1,827
- Korean 천사[t͡ɕʰʌ̹nsʰa̠] #1,473
- Lithuanian angelas[¹ˈɑˑŋʲɡʲɛlɐs] #1,493
- Macedonian ангел[ˈaŋɡɛɫ] #1,332
- Malay malaikat/malaˈikat/ #900
- Malayalam മാലാഖ/maːlaːk(ʰ)ɐ/ angel, a messenger of God in Abrahamic… #1,134
- Norwegian engel/ˈɛŋəl/ an angel #2,144
- Persian فرشته[fe.ɹeʃ.t̪ʰé] #870
- Portuguese anjo/ˈɐ̃.ʒu/ #2,043
- Romanian înger/ˈɨn.d͡ʒer/ #2,213
- Russian ангел[ˈanɡʲɪɫ] #2,443
- Serbian anđeo/âːnd͡ʑeo/ #2,056
- Slovak anjel/aɲɪ̯el/ #1,024
- Slovenian angel/àːnɡɛl/ #594
- Spanish ángeles/ˈanxeles/ #1,732
- Swedish ängel/ˈɛŋːɛl/ an angel #2,416
- Tagalog anghel/ʔaŋˈhel/ #2,264
- Telugu దేవదూత/ˈdeːʋaˌduːta/ #752
- Turkish melek/meˈlec/ angel, an incorporeal and holy messenger from… #1,851
- Urdu فرشتہ/fə.ɾɪʃ.t̪ɑ(ː)/ #708
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
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